What is the Press Institute?

In 1957, IAPA members founded the IAPA Technical Center, a separate non-profit entity to provide members–especially those in Latin America–with technical information and assistance. The under-pinning philosophy was that a technically sound publication would be better able to ward off attempts to extinguish it.

The Technical Center expanded its activities in 1962 with a $1 million grant from the Ford Foundation, and has since expanded its activities and become fully self-supporting.

In 1995 its name was changed to the IAPA Press Institute. Today, the organization offers seminars, publishes a quarterly magazine, Hora de Cierre, in Spanish with a Portuguese insert, and has published several journalism texts.